Information Webinar

Clinical consultation skills: Communication and optimal cancer care

Effective clinician communication skills are well recognised as beneficial for both patients and clinicians. Evidence demonstrates that appropriate, timely and effective clinical consultation skills positively affect a range of patient health outcomes.

This webinar brought together a panel of clinician educators and communication in healthcare experts to discuss effective communication and how it relates to fostering healing relationships and patient-centred care. The panel used the Optimal Care Pathway guidelines to promote consistent, best-practice cancer care by describing the expected communication tasks at each stage of the cancer trajectory.

Discussion also included:

the current evidence relating to effective clinician consultation skills

Applying practical communication strategies to support the implementation of the optimal care pathways

communication skills useful for each stage of the patient journey; from screening, diagnosis treatment and end of life care.